Welcome to year 8 History!

My golden rules are all about respect:

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1.Respect yourself by always trying your best

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2.Respect others by listening to them

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3.Respect everyone by being kind - to yourself, your classmates, and your teacher

TASK 1

Fill out the front of your book neatly

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Name:

Subject: History

Teacher: Ms Patel

Class code: 8D

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TASK 2

Fill out the sheet to help me find out a bit more about you

Name:

Favourite/most interesting historical individual:

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Favourite/most interesting historical thing I’ve learnt about:

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I enjoy...

What I want to achieve this year:

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Today’s title: Who are the British?

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This term, our big question is, ‘What experiences have migrants had in Britain?’.

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Let’s begin by thinking about why this is so relevant to Britain’s story.

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Where do you think these things come from?

Although we might think of them as typically ‘English’ or ‘British’, they all originate from overseas.

Set up by Polish, Jewish refugee Michael Marks in 1884

American mother, French heritage too

Possibly of ancient Mesopotamian/Egyptian origin. Brewing beer was brought to Britain from the Netherlands.

China/India

German heritage. In 1917, the name of the royal house was changed from the German Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the English Windsor (from Windsor Castle) because of anti-German sentiment in the United Kingdom during World War I.

Introduced by Jewish refugees from Holland

TASK: Watch the clip and finish these sentences

Migration is…

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Immigration is…

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Emigration is…

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3 reasons people migrate are...

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks3-migration/zf8wjhv

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Migration isn’t new!

https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/

• When humans first ventured out of Africa some 60,000 years ago, they left genetic footprints still visible today.
• These great migrations eventually led the descendants of a small group of Africans to occupy even the farthest reaches of the Earth.
• Our species is an African one: Africa is where we first evolved, and where we have spent the majority of our time on Earth.
• The earliest fossils of recognizably modern Homo sapiens appear in the fossil record at Omo Kibish in Ethiopia, around 200,000 years ago.

Think, pair, share: �What do you think?

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In 1996, the Commission for Racial Equality stated that:

“everyone who lives in Britain today is either an immigrant or a descendant of an immigrant”��

Not everyone is happy to agree with that statement. However, you don’t have to go back too far in human history to reach the time when the population of Britain was zero!

Think, pair, share:�Ground rules

1. In your opinion, what are ground rules?

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1. Why do we need ground rules for this unit?

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1. What is important to you when discussing a potentially sensitive subject?

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Task:�Set your ground rules

• In small groups discuss your top three rules
• We will take each group’s rules and compile a set for the class
• We will stick to these during the unit

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British National Breakfast

This is a spoken word piece by Hollie McNish.

1. Name three things she mentions we might think of as British that come from abroad.

Three things we might think of as British that come from abroad are …

• What do you think is the attitude of the couple featured in the poem?

The couple in the poem think that…

• Why do you think we watch this at the start of this unit?

I think we watch this at the start of this unit because…

• What is your own opinion? (Do you agree/disagree with the couple or Hollie McNish? Why?)

My opinion is that …

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJw9yGqBYJ8&t=38s

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TASK

• Close your eyes
• Listen carefully to the statements
• Stand up when one applies to you

TEACHER SLIDE: statements to read to the class

• if you were born abroad
• if you speak a different language at home
• if your parents/grandparents were born abroad
• if you have friend from a different religion
• if you have lived in a different country for more than 6 months of your life
• if you regularly eat food from different cultures
• if you want to emigrate: to live and work abroad in the future
• if you support a UK based football team with players from more than 3 other
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• if some of the shops in your town/estate/city have migrant roots
• if you have been to school in a different country
• if your family is connected with Africa/Europe/North America/Asia/Australasia/South America
• if the music you like comes originally from a different country
• if the sports stars you admire or support are from a different country
• if you visit a country your family is connected with in the summer holidays
• if some of your family members have emigrated to live abroad
• if your family have moved from one city to another in the UK (internal migration)
• if you have read a headline about migration (positive or negative) in the last few weeks

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Now, open your eyes and look around you.

What does this tell us about why migration is so important to Britain?

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Why do you think we kept our eyes closed?

Plenary:

Why is migration so important to the story of Britain?

Write down three reasons.